George "Junior Republic" Honors Thurgood Marshall

Press Release
January 27, 1955

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET * NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

THURGOOD MARSHALL 
Director and Counsel 

ROBERT L. CARTER 
Assistant Counsel 

ARNOLD DE MILLE 
Press Relations 

ARTHUR B. SPINGARN 
President 

WALTER WHITE 
Secretary 
ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS Vv 
Treasurer 

GEORGE "JUNIOR REPUBLIC” HONORS THURGOOD MARSHALL 
January 27, 1955 

NEW YORK.--Thurgood Marshall, Director-Counsel of NAACP Legal 

Defense and Educational Fund, shared honors with Chief Justice Earl 

Warren and Vice-President Richard Nixon, in receiving the annual 

Honorary Citizenship - Distinguished Service Awards from the George 

‘Junior Republic", last Monday. 

Chief Justice Warren, Vice-President Nixon and Mr. Marshall were 

honored for having "done the most to help preserve democracy for 

America's youth,” 

Mr, Marshall was cited by the George "Junior Republic" for his 

outstanding work in civil rights at a dinner at the Westbury Hotel. 

The George "Junior Republic" is a youth community where young 

people below voting age are entrusted with the responsibilities and 

privileges of citizenship, Teen-age citizens learn the basic princi- 

ples of democracy by actually running their own government in its 

executive, legislative and judicial functions through their own elec- 

ted and appointed officials, 

Others who have received Distinguished Cit izenship awards in 

past years are: The Honorable Thomas E, Dewey, Henry Ford II, 

Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Honorable Herbert Hoover, Judge David Pine, 

Ambassador Warren R, Austin, Judge Harold R. Medina and Mrs. Eleanor 

Roosevelt, 

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